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Pages from a book depicting a mans face with curly hair and a beard next to a lions face, and a man with a pointed face next to a similar looking greyhound like dog.

Pages in a manuscript journal. The author describes the work of a special magistrate in the emancipation period, and there is also a printed table fixed into the journal with wax. The table is titled: "TABLE of the relative amount of compensation awarded for the value of SLAVES, in the under-mentioned Colonies, as appropriated by the Commissioners, under Act 3d and 4th William IV., cap. 73."

Tags: LoS Caribbean

Pages of a manuscript journal with a coloured illustration of a light brown woman wearing a white and yellow patterned dress. She has gold earrings and black, bushy hair partly tied up. She is feeding a chicken. The illustration is captioned: "Mullatoe woman in her morning dress".

Tags: LoS Caribbean

Pages of a manuscript journal with an illustration of a Black man wearing a tricorn hat, a blue shirt, brown trousers and an apron, and holding an adze. Also a Black person carrying a basket of plantains on their head.

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Pages of a manuscript journal with an illustration of a rainy scene. Outside a hut, Black children crowd around a drainpipe out of which water is flowing. A Black woman dressed in only a skirt carries a bucket on her head, smokes a pipe and carries a baby wrapped in cloth around her waist. Another Black woman wearing a full dress shelters under an umbrella and carries a gold coloured child.

Tags: LoS Caribbean

Pages of a manuscript journal with an illustration of two pairs of Black men and women. One pair, captioned "Field Slaves" wears simple white caps, the man trousers, the woman a loincloth, both have their chests exposed. The other pair is captioned "Town Slaves". The man wears a brimmed hat, a jacket and striped trousers and holds a set square and compasses; the woman wears a yellow cap, white shirt and yellow dress with her breasts exposed.

Tags: LoS Caribbean

Pages of a manuscript journal with barely legible handwriting. Half of one page has been torn out. Visible are illustrations in black ink of a white man with curly hair, a pony tail and ruddy cheeks; a large sail ship, and a flying fish.

Tags: LoS Caribbean

Pages of a manuscript journal with coloured illustrations of pilot fish, a goat fish, a parrot fish, and an illustration of Black people pulling and pushing a cart with a barrel on it, overseen by a figure with a brimmed hat and a whip.

Tags: LoS Caribbean

Pages of a manuscript journal with illustrations of a blue heron like bird and a white man being attended by a Black barber. The white man wears yellow and white striped clothing and is reading a book. The barber has a comb in his hair and a pocket full of tools. There is also a Black child sitting on the floor.

Tags: LoS Caribbean

Pages of a manuscript journal with illustrations of a crab, a a Black person in profile wearing a fur knotted around their head, a saddled horse, a Black person wearing a shirt, earrings and a necklace, and Black person with a shirt and loincloth carrying a small basket on a rod over their shoulder.

Tags: LoS Caribbean

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